Archive for May, 2011
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
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Tags: Books, p&p
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Softtalk in the UK interviewed me about the parallel programming books we wrote at p&p. You can read the interview here: Interview with Ade Miller Ade Miller is one of the co-authors of the books ‘Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET’ and ‘Parallel Programming ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Spent most of the weekend at ALT.NET Seattle listening to lots of different ideas. I didn’t take a lot of notes, the motto of the conference was “practice, don’t preach”. In the same vein in the name of being able to listen more I took fewer notes. I do ...
Tags: ALT.NET, Events
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
So I finally got around to taking a stab at getting the CUDA 4.0 RC2 SDK up and running in between talks at ALT.NET Seattle.
I’m really hoping this is the last tutorial. It’s gotten a lot simpler to build CUDA on Windows in the last couple of releases.
Update June 19th ...
Tags: C++, CUDA, GPGPU, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Well, it finally happened… earlier this week the HPC team shipped their beta and it included Dryad.
We’re happy to announce that as part of the beta for Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2 we’re shipping a beta of the project code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is Microsoft’s solution for “Big Data”. What’s ...
Tags: Big Data, High Performance Computing
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